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In the light of Naples : the art of Francesco de Mura / Arthur R. Blumenthal ; contributing essays by Nicola Spinosa, David Nolta, Loredana Gazzara, Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodinò.
Fine Arts Library ND623.M925 A4 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blumenthal, Arthur R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mura, Francesco de, 1696-1782--Exhibitions.
- Mura, Francesco de.
- Mura, Francesco de, 1696-1782.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Winter Park, Florida : Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College ; London : in association with D Giles Limited, 2016.
- Summary:
- "This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696-1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura's refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and coloring, heralded the rococo, and his later style was a precursor of Neo-Classicism. His ceiling frescoes at Monte Cassino, destoyed in World War II, rivalled those of his celebrated Venetian contemporary, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Yet today, he lacks his proper place in the history of art. This volume demonstrates why it is now time to reevaluate this once-celebrated artist"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Life of Francesco de Mura / David Nolta
- Francesco de Mura: A Chronology / Arthur R. Blumenthal
- Francesco de Mura and Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Painting: Between Classicism and Rococo / Nicola Spinosa
- Something-But Not the Same Thing-in the Air: De Mura, Tiepolo, and the Science of the Heavens / David Nolta
- From Naples into the World: The Dispersal of Francesco de Mura's Works / Loredana Gazzara
- Francesco de Mura's Gift to Pio Monte della Misericordia and Its Rediscovery in the U.S. / Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodinò
- Catalogue / Arthur R. Blumenthal.
- Notes:
- Catalog of the exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, September 17 through December 18, 2016, at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wiscinsin-Madison, January 20 through April 2, 2017, and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College from April 21 through July 2, 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781907804854
- 1907804854
- 9780979228018
- 0979228018
- OCLC:
- 947954134
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